Quotes About Priorities

My name is all I have, so I don't want that to be messed up from a game of football.

People get messed up because they have a million guys they have to take care of. I don't have that.

When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's just the same. I'm a bit of a family bird.

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

Michelle had several boyfriends before she met me, and she had a lot of baggage from those relationships with other boys. We both talked about this, and we didn't want our children to have the same problems that we've had.

People in Michigan don't care about the president's Twitter feed. We care about feeding our families.

Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.

I know people may find this hard to believe, but there were lots of times when I would be just too tired to go out. I'd have Mick Jagger calling me on the phone saying, 'Oh, Bebe, please come out,' and I would be like, 'Oh, please, I've gotta go to sleep.'

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

I think a lot of athletes when they get in their mid and late 30s, they focus more on kids, on family.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.

The Lord has blessed me to play this game. I'm going to try to play it as long as I can. But at the same time, I want to be able to watch my kids grow up, so I've gotten to where I'm a little more mild, and I don't take golf as seriously as I did in the earlier years of my career.

I used to run about two miles every day, but now with 'Dancing With the Stars,' the running is over.

Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.

I always have eyeliner in the house. There might be no bread, we might be out of milk, but there's always eyeliner.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy.

Is it worth a million dollars more a year or two million dollars more a year, especially if you're taking care of your money investment-wise, is it worth that two being in an environment that you don't want to be in?

I will never be a millionaire, and I don't want to be.